Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Telenor Pakistan , a subsidiary of Telenor Norway , could invest $ 1bn over the next five years in the country s telecom sector. Fixed networks: Neuf Telecom (France) is adding digital terrestrial television (DTT) into its TV-over-ADSL offering. China...

Ciena announced its FY1Q05 revenues of $95m, up 43% yoy; revenue split was: broadband access at $15.3m, data networking at $16.6m, transport & switching at $ 50.4m and global network services at $ 12.4m. During the quarter, the operating loss was $ 56.7m...

Motorola is providing a trial 3G network for TMN ( Portugal ). Nokia has inked a GSM/EDGE network deal with Telecom Personal in Argentina . It gained a TETRA contract from Abu Dhabi police (UAE). Alcatel has signed a $133m GSM expansion and 3G upgrade...

Huawei will supply OPTUS ( Australia ) with ADSL/ADSL2+ gear under a $75m contract. It will also supply Neuf Telecom (France) with its DSLAM-IP solution, called SmartAX MA5600. Huawei has also deployed DWDM systems in enviaM and Envia TEL companies, both...

Siemens invests in 3DiS ( UK ), a machine-to-machine communications expert. Alcatel could buy Ethernet access specialist Native Networks. Fixed networks: Alcatel and Microsoft are developing a joint IPTV management and service delivery platform. Cisco...

Ericsson named Hans Vestberg, current president of business unit Global Services, as executive vice president. Samsung named In-Soo Kim as the new CEO and President of Samsung Electronics Europe .

3rd Annual RFID World . 1-3/03 2005 Dallas , Tx USA m.keller@scievents.com OFC/NFOEC - Optical Fiber Communication - 6-11/03 2005 Anaheim , CA USA http://www.ofcconference.org IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference . 13-17/03 2005 New Orleans...

World: there are currently 1.26bn GSM users in the world, according to GSMA. CDMA users hit 240m mark at the end of 2004, up 27%. Malaysia mobile subscriber base grew by 20% to 11m in 2004. Penetration is about 45%.

TeliaSonera ( Sweden ) reported 2004 results: 9.12bn in sales (flat); 2.1bn (up 43%) in operating income; 1.44bn in net profit (vs. loss); 3.36bn in EBITDA (flat) and 1.15bn in CAPEX (+15%). Tiscali ( Italy ) posted 4Q04 EBITDA of 33.4m, up 21% and revenue...

According to Insight Research, the global telecom services revenues would grow from $ 1.1tr in 2005 to $ 1.5tr in 2010. Fixed networks: France Telecom is targeting more presence in Middle East , and primarily to increase its current stake (40%) in Jordan...